Get the inner text using curl concept in php

Question

This is html text in the website, i want to grab

1,000 Places To See Before You Die

Answer 1

Why not DOMDocument and get title attribute?:

$string = '



1,000 Places To See Before You Die
2009

';

$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadHTML($string);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$text = $xpath->query('//ul[@class="listings"]/li/a/@title')->item(0)->nodeValue;
echo $text;

or

$text = explode("\n", trim($xpath->query('//ul[@class="listings"]/li/a')->item(0)->nodeValue));
echo $text[0];

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